144 LATER REFORMS AND TOURS TO EUROPE
the mouth of the Dewan his unswerving loyalty to the
Throne. The toast of the King-Emperor was, he knew,
generally given without speeches, but

eon this joyous occasion my heart is too full to permit my pro-
posing this toast, and without giving utterance to the feeling of
sincere friendship and attachment which I bear to the person
of His Majesty. . . . With some others present here I have the
proud privilege of being personally acquainted with His
Majesty, and have marked with increasing gratification the
anxious care with which His Majesty, both before and after
ascending the throne, has watched over the interests and wel-
fare of his Indian subjects.' *

'Some day', as he said after the Durbar incident, 'the
truth will be known/ He also took the opportunity of
congratulating Lord Hardinge, and India, on that Viceroy's
escape from assassination by the bomb which had been
thrown at him shortly before in Delhi:

cWe rejoice that the cowardly attempt failed and that so
noble and precious a life has been spared to us, and we join our
prayer to those that have gone up from many a church, temple,
and mosque, and from palaces and huts alike, for the speedy
recovery of our beloved Viceroy.'I

But the Maharaja was really ill, and under the doctor's
advice he once more left India for Europe. Evian,
Contrexeville, St. Moritz—the names are evidence
enough of the main object of his journey; it was from St.
Moritz that Princess Indira went to London to be married
to the Maharaja of Cooch Bihar, according to the rites
of the Brahmo Samaj. The Maharaja did not leave St.
Moritz till the gth September, and after some days spent
in Lausanne, Geneva, and Paris, reached London on the
2nd October, where they were joined by Prince Dhairya-
shil Rao, the youngest son, who had been in Devonshire

1 Speeches and AddresscStVQl.ii, p. 339.